June 14, 2015

Look at this beautiful sunrise, the fog was so cool with the

sun coming up. 

On June 6 we celebrated our 42 wedding anniversary.

Jeff gave me a prairie diamond.  It has a story about it

and it was made of a horse shoe nail.  They tell the story at

Martin Cove.  I've wanted one since last year so he

actually ordered one for me on line. 

On Monday June 1st Ray and Georgia drove to Evanston

and we visited with them for a couple of hours.  That was

a nice day for us.

Just a moment of reflection, or something.

First trek of the season was this week.  Here are the four new

missionaries I had with me this week. This was our first

porta- John stop on the first day.

Notice that three of them are sound asleep!  I couldn't help

but laugh and snap a photo.  They did great but they are

pretty tired.  Long days and lots of time not napping!

I'm not napping!  I had a great time with the Layton East Stake.

This was their kitchen crew.  Fancy aprons for them.

My first Trekker to wear a kilt the whole time.  All four days.

He liked the breeze but didn't like the mosquitoes eating 

his bare legs, so on the second day he wore tights.

A tender moment after the woman's pull.

This was their third day.

Baby birds in the nest by the skunk shed.  I was showing them

to the greene's on the facetime and the mother bird 

buzzed my head.  She was pretty angry with me.

In the Trekking world at DL&L our "Mother Teresa",

is a young woman named Christy Huff Evans.  She led treks

here from 1993 until 2005.  She developed most of the trails

and worked hard to build up the program.

This week, she had two nieces and three nephews trekking

with us.  They were from the Centerville Stake.  Jeff was

assigned to their group and they were on trail 6 that Christy

started.  It has a woman's pull that we call "Christy's Kid Killer".

The weather was so bad that they didn't get to be on 

that pull because of the mud, the support vehicles couldn't

get into the camp.   At the end, their two moms and Christy's 

mom came to pick them up.  We got to spend extra time

with them and took them on a tour of the depot.

We were excited to be with them.  The sign that

say's Christy's pavilion was actually found in pile of wood.

We were burning it and Elder Nordgren happened to look at

it just before throwing it on the fire.  He saw the writing and

brought it to us.  How excited we were.  On Monday June

8th the sign was put back up on the building and the little

signs were old trail markers we have been collecting since

last year.  On Tuesday morning I got a phone call from Christy, and

she was asking us to let her family see the depot.  How

fun for her to know we knew of her and still talked about

all she did.  Her family was amazed at the respect we all

have for her.  We will be putting the picture of Christy up

in the Trek Center.  We are very proud of her and all that she

did for trekking.  Her love of trekking still continues.

Our love of trekking is growing everyday.  Four of the

five groups that came this week signed up for 2019.

Trekking is here to stay, remember, Adam and Eve were

the first to go trekking.  The walk continues.